Gain biblical training to effectively care for those in crisis and suffering from trauma
This 120-credit course provides you with specialized training in crisis and trauma care for serving in pastoral ministry, humanitarian aid organizations, community services, or mental health facilities. You’ll also receive detailed training that allows you to minister with confidence to hurting individuals and families. You’ll learn to care for people of diverse ages, abilities, and cultural backgrounds who are in crisis or recovering from trauma using biblically sound principles from God's Word. This certificate program is available at our downtown campus.
If you complete this program you can apply for certification as a Traumatic Stress Specialist with the Association for Traumatic Stress Specialists (ATSS). A membership with ATSS offers an opportunity to gain federal professional recognition within a trauma specialty, and the association recognizes the experience, knowledge, skill, education, and training you will receive in our program. Now more than ever, current events, including natural disasters, acts of mass violence, and terrorism, require the support of trauma specialists who have demonstrated appropriate care and outreach to traumatized populations.
Learning Outcomes
With a Bachelor in Crisis and Trauma Care from Moody, you will be able to:
- Construct a theologically informed Christian worldview for crisis and trauma care ministry.
- Identify care principles and create a working knowledge of their ministry application.
- Demonstrate skills for providing effective care using a global, developmental, sociological, and trauma-informed Christian ministry perspective.
- Build biblically based lessons and case management strategies for crisis and trauma care ministry.
Program Core Classes
- Human Development
- Adolescent Psychology
- Child Development
- Adolescent and Adult Development
- Fundamentals in Crisis and Trauma
- Ministry in the Context of Crisis and Trauma
- Introduction to Counseling
- Issues and Counseling for Youth
- Trauma Assessments and Interventions
- Theology of Grief and Loss
Financial Aid
For on-campus residential students, every class in your degree is paid for by the Chicago Tuition Grant, sponsored by faithful donors. Every residential Chicago undergraduate student is awarded this grant, worth up to $12,960 a year. Off-campus commuter and online students pay $411 per credit hour. Find out how to defray the remaining costs with scholarships, grants, student loans, student employment, and veterans benefits.
